Charlotte graduated from the University of Leeds with BA (hons.) in health-care ethics in 2004 and MBChB (hons.) in 2006. She undertook an academic foundation programme in Leeds, and moved to Oxford in 2008 as an Academic Clinical Fellow and Core Trainee in psychiatry. Under the supervision of Prof Klaus Ebmeier she has worked on systematic reviews of TMS and ApoE4. She is the Royal College of Psychiatry Core Trainee of the Year 2011. She was awarded an IPA Junior Research Award in Psychogeriatrics 2011. She is currently planning a doctorate on late life depression and vascular risk factors, in conjunction with the Whitehall II study.